Windfarms - Test 4

C2 Proficiency · Word Formation · Cambridge English Proficiency 1, Cambridge University Press

For questions 1–8, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line.

VIRTUE

SIDE

SLEEP

SIGNIFY

NECESSARY

EMIT

ADD

DISASTER

Windfarms are hailed as powerful weapons in the battle against (0) ___ warming; it is considered by many to be politically incorrect to criticise them. They are clean, green and therefore (1) ___ , and viewed as such throughout the world. There is a (2) ___ to wind turbines, of course. They are enormous and dominate the landscape; they make a noise that condemns people to (3) ___ nights. One turbine standing alone in a windswept setting could be described as beautiful, but can the same description be applied to a whole host of them? But all these drawbacks pale into (4) ___ , we are told, compared to the great benefits that will result from this renewable energy source. However, there is as yet no economic way of storing electricity; turbines generate it only when the wind blows, not (5) ___ when demand is high; (6) ___ of carbon from the plants manufacturing turbines are considerable. (7) ___ , the environmental pollution caused by the extraction of a metal crucial to their construction is potentially (8) ___ .

Windfarms

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